When I moved out to Pittsburgh, I was living in the crowded Southside of Pittsburgh. It was a great city neighborhood, with a lot of bars, and loud music that played almost every night. At the problem-solving phase, I started searching to purchase a single home, in a nice quiet area, that had a garage, dishwasher, fireplace and a driveway; that was away from the proximity of city life. Understanding it was a high involvement purchase and there was going to a lot of research going into the purchase. The informational gathering phase was largely spent acquiring information about potential neighborhoods by researching crime rates, school districts and population in a neighborhood from internet searching and discussing with friends the potential
